Jim Hendren

James Paul "Jim" Hendren (12 August 1963-) was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (R) from January 1995 to 8 January 2001, preceding Kim Hendren, and a member of the State Senate from January 2013, preceding Randy Laverty.

Biography
Jim Hendren was born in Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas on 12 August 1963, and he graduated from the University of Arkansas with an engineering degree. Hendren served in the US Air Force from 1984 to 1992 and flew six intercepts of Soviet Air Force planes over the Bering Sea during the Cold War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1992, he was elected to the Gravette School Board, serving until 1997. In 1995, he was elected to the State House of Representatives as a Republican Party member, and he passed several pro-life pieces of legislation. In 2012, Hendren was elected to the State Senate, and he exempted soldiers in his state from the income tax. In March 2017, he introduced a bill that encouraged schools to censor the works of Civil Rights movement activist and socialist author Howard Zinn, expressing his intolerant conservative views.